Study title

Attitudes towards the welfare state and welfare state reforms. Political trust. Attitude to democracy. Topics: Assessment of the general and personal economic situation; political interest; party preference (Sunday question, second vote); voting behaviour in the last Bundestag election; political knowledge: importance of first and second vote; preferences for more or less government spending in selected areas; responsibility of the state in selected areas; options for financing social security; satisfaction with individual areas of social security; assessment of one´s own safeguarding through social systems; concept of reform (open naming); assessment of the direction of reform and personal advantages or disadvantages (health system, pension system, family policy); assessment of the importance of individual reform principles; assessment of the implementation of these principles in current reforms; knowledge of one´s own health insurance share; assessment of the level of benefits provided by statutory health insurance; assessment of reform options in health policy; preferences for financing the health care system; knowledge of the level of the federal subsidy to the statutory pension insurance institutions; assessment of the pension level; assessment of reform options in pension policy; preferences for the future financing of the statutory pension insurance; knowledge of parental benefits; assessment of the extent of benefits for families with children; assessment of reform options in family policy; orientations towards childcare, family and work; assessment of concrete reforms (practice fee, parental allowance, pension at 67); contact with social policy institutions; receipt of benefits from these institutions; assessment of these institutions as fair and equitable; trust or no trust (split: mistrust) in these institutions; rating of the performance of these institutions; political trust (Bundestag, Federal Government, Chancellor, relevant ministers, political...